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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10328, 8 June 1895, Page 2

Mr G. Edwards, the popular comic vocalist, -was in town to-day. The best part of the money collected here by Henry Thompson, who was sentenced on Tuesday to one month's imprisonment for soliciting and receiving alms under false pretences, has been paid over by Sergt. D tiffin to the subscribers on application at the Police Station. The amount paid over to date is £3. Considerable concern has been occasioned (says the St. James's Gazette) by the disappearance from Eastern Europe of Mr Charles Fitzgerald, who from time to time has acted as a correspondent of the Daily Newt. Engaged in Bulgaria on professional and other business, he appears to have left Sofia late in January last year, and;- to have arrived in "Vienna on the Ist or 2nd February. The lasfccommumcation received from him was^ dated the 3rd February, and wai from the latter places ; and although every effort has oince been made by his friends and relatives, absolutely no trace of him has been discoverer!.* S& had travelled very much in South and Eastern Europe, and, as it is known that he had Been twice threatened for his opinions and ' sympathies, it is feared that he has met with' foul play. The -Foreign Office are instructing the British Embassies to make inquiries. The Hoyal Engineers branch is said to be in a perfect mnddle, and its inefficiency is the talk of the army. It will hardly be believed that 2163 officers, sergeants, and trumpeters are required lor a force consisting of 5413 rank and file. And although there are three times ai many officers as in/any other corps, the public money is further, wasted under a system by which the engineering surveyors are not allowed to superintend tho carrying out of their designs— but the duty — as an excuse to' save them from a charge of absolute idleness — is left to divisional officers?, who, having neither the practical Imowlja^jfr.,nor the desire to interfere, leave it to- the foremen of works,- Colonel Parnell,_ona of the Boyal Engineers himself, declares that the whole aim of the officer* of the corps is toavoid military work, and use their position with the view of obtaining sinecure civil posts. Sydney society women-folk, it appears, are very indignant with their Mayoress, Mrs Lees, who, when going to town, as a rule travels by an omnibus. The opinion is that the proceeding \& lacking in dignity, i As plain Mrs Lees, it is argued, she might' use any conveyance she likej ; but as the Mayoress of Sydney a cab i 9 ! the right thing. Perhaps (says a Sydney writer) Mrs Lees' preference for the plebeian; 'bos may have a basis of ".ancestral survival " in the same way as the Parisian woman's walk. In ancient days Paris was paved with rounded atones — that is to say, the universal medieval mud was in that city rendered passable by being planted all over with fair-sized pebbles. The gait of the sabot-shod Parisienne of the time was, naturally, of a wary kind. The pebblea have -long since gone, but the distinctive walk survives : we call it " mincing. ' In old Sydney what passed as a cab uged to be a broken down Brougham with a pair of horses (in fashionist phrase) en suite. Thi3 turn-out, as a rule, spent its time in somnolence, but when its sun did shine it certainly made hay — bo much hay, indeed, in bo brief a span that the common saying waa that if one wanted a cab more than once a week the cheaper way was to buy the whole thing outright. Cab freight in Sydney may have survived the introduction of the fare list. The smallest number of telegraphic .messages aro seat in Norway ; the largest in Great Britain. ■ Nearly | three-fourths of tho world* drainage, directly or indirectly, pooj», into the Atlantic Ocean. PERSONS OF DELICATE CCffiRJTT tution, who are obliged to abstain- from ordinary Coffee, should try Crease's Tahaxaccm or DandelionCo^kee, which is recommended by the highest Medical Authorities as a very valuable beverage for those suffering from weak digestion, flatulency, nervousness, etc. Nottoknow v not to have. How it. it done ? By giving the people the benefit of my enormonß purchasing power, enables Arthnr Nathan's BeH«bfc Tew to suMt tbdr tv^tinitj is ow?